What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. The key however lies in freedom. The highest and lowest moments of life's experience are the important ones because they teach us how to feel. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything. The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. In this world almost all of us trade in our realities to play roles, acting out what we think people want us to be. If you do this you are trading in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act- and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.
.. "AND WHAT CAME TO EARTH WAS A GREAT ROCK AND ROLL BAND!" ..
Suede - Beautiful Ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkRW8kBdgzg
Suede Beautiful Ones (C) 1996 Nude Records